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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Administrative Procedure Act Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule for 2024 Data: Environmental Defense Fund Files Judicial Challenge to U.S. Environmental Protection...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) extended on March 20th the reporting deadline under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule for 2024 data. See 90 Fed. Reg. 13085. EPA extended the reporting deadline...more

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EPA Announces Deregulatory Initiative to "Power the Great American Comeback"

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on March 12, 2025, that EPA will undertake 31 distinct actions in an effort to advance President Donald Trump's Day One executive orders (EOs) to...more

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Fifth Circuit Permits the Use of the Social Cost of Carbon, For Now

The court’s decision allows the Biden administration to further develop the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) but leaves open the possibility of future judicial scrutiny of its implementation. The Fifth Circuit’s ruling allows...more

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A Court-Side Seat: An End-of-Year Environmental Update

As 2022 draws to a close, here is a brief description of recent environmental and regulatory law rulings, as well as new federal rulemaking proceedings....more

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Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program: Earthjustice Petitions U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Add Dams/Reservoirs as a Source...

Earthjustice filed a March 21st Petition before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on behalf of 130 groups requesting that dams and reservoirs be added as a source category under the Greenhouse Gas...more

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“Immediately Effective” Midnight Rules — Beyond The Hour For Change Or Vulnerable To Court Challenges?

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Ordinarily, the law governing how agencies create regulations — the Administrative Procedure Act — requires a thirty-day window between when a rule is published in the Federal Register and becomes “final” and when the rule is...more

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Will Congress Rollback Trump Regulatory Actions to Advance the Biden Policy Agenda?

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Recent news that the Democrats flipped both U.S. Senate seats in Georgia’s run-off election means that the Democrats have enough votes to add the Congressional Review Act (CRA)[1] to the tools that could be used to advance...more

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Environmental Notes - November 2020

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If Joe Biden is elected President there will be significant changes in environmental regulation for American businesses. Some changes can (and likely will) take place very quickly, with the stroke of a pen. These could...more

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Washington Supreme Court Invalidates Indirect Emitter Portions of the Clean Air Rule

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In a split decision issued on January 16, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Ecology (Ecology) lacks authority under the state’s Clean Air Act (the act) to cap greenhouse gas emissions from...more

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Project Aggregation/Clean Air Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Concludes Reconsideration of 2009 Guidance

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a November 7th Federal Register Notice described as a “Final Action” that concludes: . . . the reconsideration of an earlier action that the EPA published...more

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Environmental Regs That Have Been Revoked, Stayed or Postponed by the New Administration

Only a few existing federal environmental rules have been set aside or overturned by the new Administration, and these actions were taken by the Congress in accordance with the special procedures of the Congressional Review...more

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